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From some D&D Pathfinder campaign:-
Lamashtu, Mother of Monsters
Lamashtu (la-MASH-tu) is the mother of monsters, devourer of infants, and source of all that is corrupted and bestial. A monstrous and terrifying deity born from the depths of madness, she is both fiendish queen and revered mother to the horrors that stalk the night. Legends say that from her womb sprang many of Golarion's monstrous races. Although goblin and gnolls are her best-known progeny, ultimately her foul spawn number too many to count. Her dominion over beasts makes the wilderness a fearsome place, while her nightmares invade the peace of sleep. In her thoughts scream endless dreams of the insane, and in her will lies the destruction of all things.
Lamashtu tore out her own womb and feasted upon it to gain power over the unborn, then regenerated her own flesh by consuming a thousand stolen infants. Her milk can sustain, poison, or even transform those who drink it. Lamashtu steals seed from men while they sleep and uses it to create half-breed monsters that she laters sends to shame and wound their fathers. Her touch and breath cause stillbirths and infant deformities, and those who suffer it are usually plagued by nightmares.
Lamashtu's goal is to create evil and chaos by twisting the flesh and spirit of all creatures into misshappen things that connot stand in the sight of the untainted. She is not an empire-builder or a warlord, she only wishes to corrupt mortals until the entire world is her altered brood, an enormous monstrous family devoted to her. If her world is full of warring tribes, so much the better, for it means there will always be a need for many births to replenish the ranks of the fallen. Lamashtu revels in destroying the most innocent, whether defiling their flesh or tainting their minds, to her a nursery is a banquet. She is a fertility goddess, but while those who pray to her are more likely to survive childbirth, their offspring are inevitably tainted. Offering somebody else's newborn as a sacrifice to protect your own is a viable practice.
The Mother of Monsters has dominion over all unintelligent monsters, which is why the untamed creatures of the wild consider mankind an enemy. Many strange monsters stem from her whim, as she enjoys molding the flesh of radically different beasts to create new terrors. Those plagued by monsters can pray to her for asistance, and in exchange for loaylty and offerings of newborns or infants, Lamashtu sends her minions away to prey upon unbelievers.
Lamashtu is chaotic evil and her portfolio is madness, monsters (including wild beasts), and nightmares. Her holy symbol is a three-eyed jackal's head. She is called the Demon Queen, the Mother of Beasts or Monsters, the Demon Mother. Despite her title, she is not the creator of the demon race as a whole, though she is served by many such fiends and herself sprung from the depths of the abyss.
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